Module 4.1

Overview

This module is dedicated to helping you understand how peer-reviewed journal articles are structured, paying particular attention to how authors choose to create abstracts, titles, headings, sub-headings, and references. We will talk through such structural features using Diver et al.'s "Recognizing 'Reciprocal Relations' to Restore Community Access to Land and Water" as a model. Think about how the article models some choices you might make, perhaps guiding how organize your Researched Argument material.

To help you accomplish the thinking and implementing process, I invite you to participate in two invention activities: Descriptive Outlining and From Working Knowledge to Deep Knowledge.

Descriptive Outlining: (1 pt.)
- Each of you should choose and then re-read the peer-reviewed journal article from your annotated bibliography that you used in your Synthesis assignment. As you re-read, work to understand the article's structure and content. Notice each of its organizing features. Notice how it does or does not adhere to (Western) design principles (think about our discussion of Cohn's "Understanding Visual Rhetoric"). Think about why the authors made choices as they did. An instruction handout will guide your work: Descriptive Outlining Explanation and Process.
From Working Knowledge to Deep Knowledge: (1 pt.)

- In collaboration with a partner, take turns working through a series of free-writing, reporting, and interviewing about your researched argument topic. The following instruction handout will guide you as you move from Working Knowledge to Deep Knowledge.

Learning Materials

Example

required Readings

One peer-reviewed journal article of your choice from your Annotated Bibliography.

Assignments